RISC-V inferior to ARMv8

By: Wilco (Wilco.dijkstra.delete@this.ntlworld.com), December 20, 2018 2:31 pm
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Heikki Kultala (heikki.kultala.delete@this.tut.fi) on December 20, 2018 7:36 am wrote:
> I'm also not very enthustiastic about RISC-V.
>
> It fixes the stupidities of 1980's RISC architectures, but it's still way too typical RISC.
> And it is simply inferior ISA compared to ARMv8, which is much
> more pragmatic and includes many practical non-riscy features.
>
> I have not studied the system-level details (memory consistency, virtual memory etc.) of RISC-V,
> but for userspace code, things I mostly consider inferior in RISC-V compared to ARMv8 are:
>
> * Lacks any predicated instructions, even conditional moves.
>
> They say branch prediction is so good that we should do everything with branches,
> but unnecessary unpredictable branches just consume space in the branch prediction
> tables, worsening the accuracy for those branches that could be predicted.
>
> And then there is the Spectre thing. Even when we have good branch
> prediction, we should still minimize the number of branches
>
> * Lacks more complicated addressing modes.
>
> Load an integer from an array, RISC-V needs three instructions for that (shift, add, load).
> ARMv8 does that with SINGLE instruction. And loading a value from array is a VERY common thing.
>
> ARMv8 has also autoincrementing memory ops. These are also very nice thing to have for many situations.
>
> ARMv8 also has load pair and store pair, effectively doubling bandwidth between core and L1D.

I'd add small immediate ranges:

load/store +-2KB (half of range wasted due to being signed)
jump/call +-1MB (5 bits wasted so most calls need 2 instructions)
branch +-4KB (extra branch instructions required when a function is > 4KB)
add/sub +-2KB (need 3+ instructions for larger immediates)

Basic if-statements like if (x & 0xff0) require 4-5 instructions vs 2 on AArch64...

Wilco
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      RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/20 02:31 PM
        RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Travis Downs2018/12/20 03:18 PM
          RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/21 04:43 AM
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          RISC-V inferior to ARMv8juanrga2018/12/21 11:28 AM
            RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Maynard Handley2018/12/21 03:39 PM
              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8anon2018/12/21 04:38 PM
                RISC-V inferior to ARMv8juanrga2018/12/23 05:39 AM
                  With similar logic nor do frequency (NT)Megol2018/12/23 10:45 AM
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                RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/23 07:21 AM
      RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Michael S2018/12/20 04:24 PM
        RISC-V inferior to ARMv8anon2018/12/20 05:22 PM
          RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Travis Downs2018/12/21 07:16 PM
            RISC-V inferior to ARMv8anon2018/12/22 04:53 AM
              Execution runtimes and SpectreFoo_2018/12/22 07:02 AM
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          RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Doug S2018/12/21 12:10 AM
            RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Adrian2018/12/21 12:38 AM
              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Michael S2018/12/21 03:31 AM
                RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Adrian2018/12/21 04:23 AM
            RISC-V inferior to ARMv8random person2018/12/21 03:04 AM
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              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8juanrga2018/12/21 11:36 AM
              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Doug S2018/12/21 01:02 PM
            RISC-V inferior to ARMv8juanrga2018/12/21 11:23 AM
          RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Adrian2018/12/21 12:21 AM
          RISC-V inferior to ARMv8anon2018/12/21 02:48 AM
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            RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Adrian2018/12/21 05:09 AM
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          RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Michael S2018/12/21 03:27 AM
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              RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/21 04:43 PM
                RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Travis Downs2018/12/21 06:45 PM
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                      RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Wilco2018/12/22 11:32 AM
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                      Cracking is not freeWilco2018/12/23 07:48 AM
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                  RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Travis Downs2018/12/22 08:03 AM
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                      RISC-V inferior to ARMv8Travis Downs2018/12/22 08:40 AM
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                RISC-V inferior to ARMv8dmcq2018/12/22 11:41 AM
        RISC-V inferior to ARMv8AnonQ2018/12/22 09:13 AM
    RISC-V gut feelingsdmcq2018/12/20 08:41 AM
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        RISC-V initial takedmcq2018/12/21 04:23 AM
      RISC-V gut feelingsMontaray Jack2018/12/22 03:56 PM
        RISC-V gut feelingsdmcq2018/12/23 05:38 AM
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        Not Stanford MIPS but commercial MIPSMichael S2018/12/23 04:49 AM
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